It is hard to understand why Jewish speakers mistook the last syllable of the name they must have known for centuries for a plural ending. Would any English-speaker identify the final -s of Rose with a plural ending? And how did the reduplication arise? Two main hypotheses on the origin of Kike are often mentioned. According to the first its author is J. Lacher, , the suffix -sky in the Jewish family names of emigrants from Poland and Russia became a linguistic marker of their poor manners compare the adjective buttinsky , with its implied reference to the behavior of pertinacious Jews.
Also, s , the initial consonant of the suffix was supposedly left out and the remaining stub -ky reduplicated again reduplicated! Given such freedom of phonetic change, almost any combination of sounds can be shown to become any other.
Incidentally, in Minnesota the first vowel of Winona is short; stress falls on the second syllable, which is long. According to the main of them, on Ellis Island those immigrating Jews who knew neither English nor the Roman script were asked to put an X near their names, but looked upon it as a picture of the cross, a symbol of their former persecution, and instead put a circle.
Could the English speaking officials on Ellis Island isolate one Yiddish word in the speech of the Jewish people they dealt with, use it mockingly, and make it famous? In an article by David L. Gold I read a slightly different version of the kaykl etymology, which he endorses, though cautiously. The term undoubtedly originated as drummer slang. The letter, dated July 23, , was written relatively soon after the word Kike spread in American English.
The OED could not find any mention of it prior to The tradition ascribing the coining of Kike to Jewish traveling salesmen hucksters, hawkers, badgers may be trustworthy.
Compare the etymology of the English word slang it can be found in an earlier post and in my dictionary ; it also seems to have been coined by traveling salesmen. The website, named for the viciously anti-Semitic Nazi tabloid Der Sturmer, goes on to explain that under alt-right ideology and values , "Jews are behind all of the things which we are against, the diametric opposite of everything that we stand for.
In a very real sense, defeating and physically removing the Jews will solve every other problem. None of this would be happening if it were not for the Jews. Not all Jewish organizations have been silent in the face of Trump's anti-Semitic supporters. Trump hasn't spoken out vociferously against these anti-Semites and racists and misogynists who continue to support him," Anti-Defamation League leader Jonathan Greenblatt, said in July. There's a reason why so many anti-Semites are going for Trump.
It's not that he's an anti-Semite. He's something worse. He's an influential public figure who trades on anti-Semitism, who benefits from it, who enables and tolerates and excuses and pumps it, and who, most crucially, cannot afford to lose the votes of his admirers who hate Jews. Just as he cannot afford to lose the votes of his admirers who bear strong prejudice against women, Muslims, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans and others.
Donald Trump may be the grandfather to a Jewish baby. But if that baby grows up in a nation ruled by Trump, one day he may be the one Jew at that dinner table to ask why his grandfather helped make anti-Semitism American again. We're on the brink of a nuclear war, and these scumbags are talking about pussy-grabbing. Bradley Burston Oct. Get email notification for articles from Bradley Burston Follow. Click the alert icon to follow topics: Antisemitism U.
Tel Aviv Is Over. Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of kike. First Known Use of kike , in the meaning defined above. History and Etymology for kike origin unknown. Learn More About kike. Time Traveler for kike The first known use of kike was in See more words from the same year.
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